A school in Tennessee makes iPads mandatory
A private school in Knoxville, Tennessee, made the iPad a mandatory education device and all students from fourth to 12th grade will be required to carry one starting this August. Webb School students can either provide their own slate or lease a WiFi-only model for $20 a month. Just like administrators at Seton Hill University, the folks at Webb School see the iPad as an eventual replacement for traditional textbooks, as well as a tool for interactive learning.
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Radeon HD 6990 sample in details
AMD has showcased its upcoming flagship graphics card in Singapore. It's known as Radeon HD 6990 (codename Antilles ) and features two 40nm Cayman GPUs and 4GB of GDDR5 memory. Initially scheduled for a late 2010 release, the Radeon HD 6990 is now expected to be launched at the end of this quarter, packing 3072 Stream Processors, a 2x 256-bit memory interface, and a dual-slot, single fan cooler.
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Microsoft sold 2.1 million WP7 licences last year
Website ZDnet reports that Microsoft sold 2.1 million licenses of Window Phone 7 to OEMs in 2010, tacking on almost 900,000 in December alone. The figures come via senior product manager Greg Sullivan, who said the pace continued to accelerate. Additionally, surveys of Windows Phone 7 owners concluded that 93 percent were satisfied or very satisfied with their device, and another 90 percent would recommend the product to others.
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PlayStation Portable 2 goes official
At the special event on Thursday, Sony lept back into mobile gaming with the Next Generation Portable . The PlayStation Portable 2 promises a PS3-level experience with a much faster, quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a multi-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 graphics chip four times faster than seen before. It centers on a massive five-inch, 960x544 OLED screen that promises a much larger experience than on a smartphone. The handheld is also the first portable console to have a built-in 3G modem and, if players want, gives them an always-on Internet connection for multiplayer or downloading content when not near 802.11n Wi-Fi. GPS is onboard as well. A special app called Near will let users see what other gamers are currently playing or saying, such as on a train; it should let them join in or download a game they don't yet have. It can even show the most popular game in an area.
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Small group of pirates makes most of unauthorized file sharing
Spanish researchers at the Carlos III University of Madrid have posted interesting results in regards to filesharing. The researchers say a very small fraction of users are responsible for over two-thirds of all content published, and over three-fourths of all downloads. Using the names, ISPs and IP addresses of uploaders and downloaders to 55,000 torrents published to Mininova and The Pirate Bay, the group concluded that just 100 users were behind 67 percent of the uploads and 75 percent of the downloads.
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Gigabyte makes 1GHz-clocked GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Taiwanese Gigabyte Technology has launched a GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics card with a GPU overclocked to 1 GHz. The model in question is GV-N560SO-1GI and it's part of the Super Overclock Series with a custom cooling solution. Gigabyte's product uses a WindForce 2X cooler which packs two copper heatpipes and two inclined PWM fans, and features a 7-phase power design (reference models have 4 phases), voltage read points, and an Ultra Durable PCB colored blue and enhanced with 2oz copper.
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AMD Turks GPUs in details
Guys from Chinese website pcinlife site managed to get their hands on AMD's upcoming entry-level Radeon HD 6570 and Radeon HD 6670 cards that will be based on the 40nm Turks GPU. Both units based on the Turks GPU have 480 Stream processors, 16 ROPs and come with a 128-bit memory interface. The slower one, will be known as the Radeon HD 6570 card, and ends up clocked at 650MHz for the GPU and will feature 2GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1800MHz. The faster one, Radeon HD 6670, ends up clocked at 800MHz and features 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 4000MHz.
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Leaked Panther Point slide reveals USB 3.0 support
A leaked presentation may have confirmed that Intel's Panther Point chipset will finally add native USB 3.0 support. The presentation refers to the platform supporting as many as four of the ports at full speed with ten more supplying USB 2.0. A dedicated controller, the XHCI, would handle just the 3.0 jacks and would give each of them the full 5Gbps of bandwidth, preventing one from slowing down the other. OS requirements would also be stiff: Windows XP and Vista would be excluded entirely, limiting users to 7 or the upcoming 8 and their server equivalents. Linux would get open-source drivers. Apple isn't mentioned, but it typically refuses to be included in outside firms' compatibility lists when it hasn't made an announcement of its own.
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